I totally agree with you. In fact, that's why I wrote an alternative logging library — to try to do the same thing for `logging` that `requests` did for `urllib

I totally agree with you. In fact, that's why I wrote an alternative logging library — to try to do the same thing for `logging` that `requests` did for `urllib`. Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/peterldowns/lggr https://github.com/peterldowns/lggr EDIT: Forgot to mention that although I haven't worked on this for a couple of months, I'm about to revisit it and would love to have other contributors. Please, fork this and make it better!